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2005/9/5-6 [Recreation/Dating, Recreation/Humor] UID:39496 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto |
9/6 Grape Scented Light Saber http://download.theforce.net/theater/animation/grapescented/grape_scented.mov \_ totally hilarious. I can somewhat relate as I can't get laid, and I have a deep hatred for jocks who rock the ceiling of my apartment late at 4AM and get laid all the time. |
2005/9/5-7 [Consumer, Uncategorized/Profanity] UID:39497 Activity:low |
9/6 40-Year Old Virgin-- totally funny, and very different. Go see it! \_ It could have been modeled after some unnamed sodalites. \_ It is hilarious. I also recommend it. Question. What does singing "The Age of Aquarius" have anything to do with getting laid? My history of the hippy era is pretty bad. Please explain, thx. \_ It was a poke in the eye to the boomers. That song is their anthem. That is how I read it, anyway. \_ Interesting. What year was the zenith of the hippy era? \_ Depends who you ask. The zenith of its visibility and influence on the wider culture was probably Woodstock in 1969. If you ask those who considered themselves the "true hippies," it was probably the early '60s era in San Francisco - Diggers, Merry Pranksters, etc...by the time the "Summer of Love" happened, most of the "true hippies" felt the whole thing had gone to shit and just become an excuse to get high and fuck. -- had hippy parents \_ lye, did your parents smoke pot? Are they still liberal or have they become a lot more conservative? \_ Clearly you don't know me at all if you're asking what happened to my parents. I'd rather not go into it on the motd. You can email me if you're really interested. --lye \_ Isn't that it was always about? In any case, its Zenith as a cultural movement was probably '68 "Summer of Love" or soon thereafter. \_ I've seen what people looked like (especially hippies) in the 60s ... I'd probably have to be high to fuck anyone back then. \_ I dunno. Gogo boots and minidresses are pretty rad. It's the 70s that make me wanna hurl. Of course, the above isn't 'hippy' attire. |
2005/9/5-6 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:39498 Activity:nil |
9/6 Those crazy Canadians, now they want to start using Islamic law in family law arbirtarion: http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/09/04/islamic_arbitration20050904.html |
2005/9/5-6 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:39499 Activity:nil |
9/6 Why does BBC hate the Republicans? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4214516.stm |
2005/9/5-7 [Uncategorized] UID:39500 Activity:nil |
9/5 Chuck E. Cheese plays Ministry of Truth http://www.truthout.org/docs/2005/090205C.shtml No clue if this is for real or not, but it seemed almost too silly to be true. -John \_ 404 Not Found. \_ yvan eht nioj! |
2005/9/5-7 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:39501 Activity:low |
9/3 Bush Nominates Roberts for Chief Justice Hey man, didn't I say this was coming ... "The main point is that Roberts could be the next Rehnquist, and this could last for decades." \- i did suggest on the wall 1. bush will likely nominate somebody "you have never heard of" [unless you are a Groupie of somebody "you have never heard of" [unless you are an Groupie of the Federal Judiciary] 2. ROBERTS was being set up to be Chief [over Scalia] although when the possibility existed to ask OCONNOR to stay on as acting CJ and then elevate ROBERTS, i thought he might go with that plan [I believe no extra hearing needed to make OCONNOR acting CJ, and that would have been a breeze]. THOMAS' tribute comments are leem: "I am sad and I miss him. He was good. Pray." [ok maybe there was more to it?] make OCONNOR acting CJ, and that would have been a breeze]. It's interesting to note how leem THOMAS tribute is: "I was sad and I miss him. He was good. Pray." [ok maybe there was more to it?] See: http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/09/04/rehnquist.reaction/index.html I guess this gives STEVENS license to make his appointment a "life setence" too. Yeah. --psb |
2005/9/5-6 [Uncategorized] UID:39502 Activity:kinda low |
9/3 Where is Dick Cheney hiding these days? \_ He just got back from his vacation in Wyoming. I hear he caught some nice trout. \- He was at Burning Man \_ Did he catch a deli.cio.us bass? |
2005/9/5-7 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:39503 Activity:moderate |
9/3 Talking POINTS on Fox, towards the end of the talk on "The lesson to be learned from Hurricane Katrina" says that if you want something done, you do it yourself. You can't rely on the government for anything, you must rely on yourself. Conservatism #1! Republican #1!!! \_ Weird, I thought law and order was the one thing conservatives think government is good for. \_ Weird, I thought the one thing conservatives and libertarians thought was a valid function of government was law and order. \_ Conservatives believe in, first and foremost, *self-reliance*, the "take matters with your own hands" attitude. \_ oh, man, things were so much better when the states all printed their own money. \_ So you're saying that each state and local government should invest billions of dollars in their own military and civil infrastructure to defend themselves and deal with catastrophic terrorist acts or natural disasters? That sure makes a lot of sense economically. Why create a single resource that can be shared amongst the entire nation when you can just reinvent the wheel at the state and local levels? Because we all need to be "self-reliant" \_ I'm not saying that. It's what many Republicans believe. \_ really? got a URL for any republican saying that each state and local government should spend billions of state/local dollars for their own military and civil infrastructure to defend themselves and deal with catastrophic terrorist acts and natural disasters? oh. no. you don't. you just made that up. welcome to the motd. \_ Republicans are defending the federal government and the president while blaming state and local authorities for the NOLA fiasco. If you're saying that it means that either (A) the state did not utilize all the resources it had in an effective manner or (B) the state simply did not have the resources to handle the disaster in the first place. But I think it's clear from the scale of the disaster that the only way to deal with this disaster is to have an emergency response infrastructure that is well beyond the scale and budget of any state like LA. \_ The world is not that black and white. Local and state authorities have responsibilities that they shirked. They didn't even approach a minimal \_ You don't have any evidence of this other than the rantings of right wing blogs. Do you still believe the governor didn't declare a state of emergency? \_ How many school buses were left sitting unused? What exactly was the evacuation plan and did anyone even try to follow it? I don't read *any* blogs, thanks for trying. \_ So your evacuation plan would have been to ferry 100,000 on these school buses to be driven by all these school bus drivers who would rather take care of their own family and problems than to drive a bunch of strangers around on an already overcrowded I-10? \_ nice way to ignore the rest. but yes if you had read the plan you'd know that the school buses they left to rot were *part* of the plan to evac those who couldn't get out on their own. look, i'm sorry if the facts are getting in the way of your agenda but the fact remains that the locals have responsibilities and failed. here, let me save you the trouble of going on, "gwb is evil, HALIBURTON!, oil, Iraq, cheney is evil, scalia is evil, dick morris is evil, HALIBURTON!, oil, save the spotted owl, christians are evil!". did i miss anything? \_ I've never said anything in the last 5 lines you wrote there but nice of you to make assumptions like that. I do think GWB is pretty inept. What was the *full* plan? I think the mayor calling for a mandatory evacuation and the governer requesting a state of emergency is part of the plan. I think the federal government not acting on the request is pretty criminal. If a state governer requests resources for evacuation and you don't act on it that places the blame on the federal government, not state and local. level of reasonable response or use the resources they had in place prior to the event to prevent a lot of the hardship we've seen in the last week. Yes, of course the federal response could have been better as the President already stated. The federal response was slow and somewhat inept. The state/local response borders on criminal. With authority comes responsibility, something the locals didn't understand and the people suffered for it. It's all fun n games being Governor or Mayor until people start drowning, starving, and dying of dehydration. Then you just blame the feds and start your re-election campaign early. \_ How is the state and local response "criminal"? The state and local govt have limited resources. The federal govt has much greater resources. If you exhaust your state and local resources to capacity then you've done everything you can. But if you're a federal government with billions of dollars at its disposal and you've done jack shit at your disposal and you've done jack shit then that's criminal \_ see above. \_ I thought that was more of a Libertarian plank.... \_ I think their definition of "self-reliance" meant something like "give tax break to big business" and "relax pollution standard so mercury is on everyone's dinner plate." like "give tax break to big business" and "relax pollution standard so mercury is on everyone's dinner plate." |
2005/9/5-6 [Science/Disaster, Recreation/Humor] UID:39504 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto |
9/6 HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA: The Fema Rap http://www.fema.gov/kids/femarap.htm |
2005/9/5-6 [Uncategorized] UID:39505 Activity:nil |
9/6 Did Rove have Rehnquist knocked off to disctract attention from NOLA? Yes: + No: |
2005/9/5-7 [Politics/Domestic] UID:39506 Activity:nil |
9/5 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9142893 Hey pot smoking LibUrals, does this news make you happy? \_ Well, seeing as this is likely a harbinger of difficult economic times, why would it? Does it make you want to cry Mr. Bible- thumping Neo-Con? \_ Yes, I am always happy when economic reality sets in. \_ I sorta think pot smoking liberals would be happy solely because they are pot smoking. =D -mrauser \_ Uhhhh whaaaaaaat ... duuuuuuuuude you said "pot" \_ It makes me very unhappy that lots of American workers will lose their jobs due to the usual braindead management obsessed with the next big SUV and unable to compete in the ordinary passenger car market. |
2005/9/5-7 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:39507 Activity:nil |
9/5 How is Katrina going to affect the housing market? I'd like to hear opinions from both sides. Thanks. \_ Just a wild guess, but I think you can probably get something in underwater New Orleas pretty cheap now. \_ Answer unclear. Try again later. \_ Sometime last week, houses and office space in Baton Rogue were being snatched up by speculators. |
2005/9/5-6 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China, Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:39508 Activity:low |
9/5 Say you're really old and you're going to die in 10 years. You don't care about your credit rating. Isn't it possible that you borrow a big sum from the bank and then declare bankrupcy later on? Or don't even bother with it since you're going to die? \_ If you die any debts are paid out of your estate, so anyone who lent money to you would get it back providing you didn't just waste it. And I doubt they would lend to the elderly who didn't have money to really cover the loan. -mrauser \- a think a better scenario is if you have a terminal disease or are contemplating leaving the country ... in the leave the country case, after liquidating assets, i wonder if you can avoid your last tax bill. that could be like a million dollars on cap gains. \_ Owing the gubmint a million bucks would make it difficult and dangerous to visit the States afterwards. Obviously this would not be a concern for the terminally ill. I do know people with large amounts of untaxed and unknown to the US foreign investments. They can only spend the money outside the country and actually live somewhat shabbily (relative to their total available means) in the US. \_ It worked for Marc Rich. -John \- well i mean a scenario like an immigrant from china or india sells their million dollar real estate and stock portfolio and moves back home and happily settles there. \_ I assumed that those Chinese or Indian immigrants who might escape with the tax-free millions might still want to visit the US later or to send their kids to college here. The US is quite a pleasant place to live or just to visit, and it will take a bit of money to compensate for the permanent inability to enter the US. \_ The person would need to avoid investing with US based financial institutions or those who share banking treaties with the US. Frozen assets suck. |
2005/9/5-6 [Uncategorized] UID:39509 Activity:nil |
9/5 I think we know what "a government small enough to drown in a bathtub" looks like now. |
2005/9/5-7 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:39510 Activity:nil |
9/5 "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overhwlemed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle)--this is working very well for them." -Barbara Bush \_ Now we see where W learned his endearing "chuckle at inappropriate moments" technique. \_ FYI http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050906/cm_thenation/120080 |
2005/9/5-6 [Recreation/Shopping, Industry/Jobs, Recreation/Dating] UID:39511 Activity:high |
9/5 I patronized a Walmart for the first time, and it was a spectacular shopping experience. The people there were incredibly helpful, even after it became obvious that I would not be buying from them. My wife so appreciated their helpfulness that she kept asking me if there was some way to tip them or otherwise pay them for their service. Two big thumbs up on Walmart from my wife and I. \_ No DUH!!! They are first and foremost a business. They train employees to be nice to everyone, and even teach them how to talk to liberals in such a way that even liberals will start to shop at Walmart. I have no problem with the way front-end clerks treat the people. It is the back-end of Walmart that is fucked up. \_ I was treated much worse at the Costco a block away, where the employee told me to fuck off, though he did do it politely. The Walmart employees (I was helped by 3 of them) were helpful even after it was obvious that I would not be buying from them. In fact, that visit to Walmart was possibly the best shopping experience I've ever had. The only other comparable service experience was when the concierge at my Paris hotel (the Hotel de Crillon, also highly recommended) got me same-day tapes of the World Series and delivered hot dogs room service (and I had to pay for the hot dogs). -op \- Was the concierge hot? \- g'vitch: boy i sure wouldnt have predicted CRILLON to come up in a WALMART thread. did you have the SUPER CALVADOS? (at the Hotel Crillon, not W'mart). --bibendum in a WALMART thread. did you have the super CALVADOS? at the H otel Crillon, not W'mart). \_ KGV > Crillon :-) -John \_ it has been my experience the merchandise at walmart is not very high quality but i have weird shopping needs - danh \- Is Walmart different from Target? I thought target had some reasonably priced minor appliances. I think I bought a peeler or an iron or something like that there. Costco is sort of horrifying. --psb \_ it's definitely bad to have your beefcake boytoys breaking out of their cheap handcuffs. \_ I was in one near Sacramento for the first (and last) time last year. It was like some twisted circle of hell; I kept expecting Mr. Kurtz to pop out of the bushes gasping "the horror, the horror". Full of white & black trash, massively overweight people including women in stained stirrup pants with screaming children and carts full of horrible fatty starchy food. Broken toys and torn cheap household articles / clothing everywhere; my girlfriend came up to me with this horrified look on her face after finding the size 38 dresses next to the family-sized tubs of candy. Also the Marines recruiters and the morbidly obese people out front selling brand-knockoff jesus t-shirts out front and the staff resembling badly groomed zombies stumbling around wild-eyed sort of complemented the general atmosphere. Shudder. -John \- You need to go to the Walmart in Hillsborough. \- You need to go to the Walmart in Hillborough. \_ A couple of years ago i went into the Walmart in Cancun, and except that all the prices were in pesos, and the electronics section still sold NES games, the place looked the same as many of the Walmarts I've seen in the San Joaquin Valley |
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